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No, The Guinea Pig Is Not The Penny: Phoebe Waller-Bridge's six-episode comedy series ended on a shattering — yet hugely satisfying — note.

In the smart, surprising Western/heist film, Texas Rangers Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) and Parker (Gil Birmingham) stop for a memorable meal.

Nothing picks up a drab living room — and puts a charming seasonal twist on communing with the spirit world — than the festive wall art featured in the Netflix series.

Natalie Portman's performance in Jackie never gets more raw and human than when the grieving widow drinks, smokes, pops pills and tries on dresses, accompanied by Lerner and Leowe.

Actor Richard Gross doesn't get much screen time in Daniel Radcliffe's exultantly weird farting corpse movie, but the expression on his face at its climax is one of the funniest film moments of 2016.

"You don't save me, I save me." In the fifth episode of Better Call Saul's second season, Kim (Rhea Seehorn) digs herself out.

Sweden hosted the Eurovision Song Contest this year, and offered a funny/catchy how-to guide to winning. It involved shirtless men and hamster wheels.

On the CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom offered a less-than-loving musical paean to the plight of the zaftig.

With his dramatic, long-awaited entrance in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man (Tom Holland) came in from the cold.

Yes, The Great British Baking Show's future is uncertain. But take heart: we'll always have the Madeira cake episode, in which Season 3's bakers memorably showed us their lovely cracks.

Sometimes a condiment is just a condiment: A line from Beyoncé's "Formation" became its own mini-anthem.

In the Coen Brothers' film, screen idol Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum) taps away the blues.

Once a day until December 25th, NPR's "Monkey See" blog is highlighting a small, good thing that happened in pop culture this year.

This supercut of David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian in The People vs. O.J. Simpson has got more 'Juice's than a breakfast buffet.

Glen Weldon and Audie Cornish discuss the first season of HBO's densely plotted science fiction series.

Here. Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2016 Tony acceptance speech again. Because the night is dark and full of terrors.

A wordless scene from the Barry Jenkins film Moonlight speaks volumes.

Alyssa Edwards. Tatianna. Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive." This is what a lip-sync battle looks like, Jimmy Fallon.

In Yorgos Lanthimos's film, a hotel manager (Olivia Coleman) lays down the law: "A wolf and a penguin could never live together."

The FX series played with its format in its first season, and its sixth episode smartly switched point-of-view to that of a character we'd been growing impatient to hear from.